Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, February 29, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 19th instant, in which, with reference to my communication of the 17th of this month, relative to the case of the schooner Etta, you gave me some further information in regard to that vessel, and to inform you I have invited the attention of the Secretary of the Treasury to it.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your lordship’s obedient servant

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.